Joseph AMIRAULT (MIREAULT)

(b. 8 December 1689, , Acadie d. 22 May 1774, Saint-Sulpice, Province of Québec, Canada )

Summary: Joseph AMIRAULT (MIREAULT) was born 8 December 1689 in , Acadie. Joseph AMIRAULT (MIREAULT) was the child of François AMIRAULT dit TOURANGEAU and Marie PITRE DE PALOMCOUP and the grandchild of: (maternal) Jean Beneque PITRE and Marie PESSELEY (PESSELET)

He married Marguerite LORD (LAURE) 31 July 1718 in Port Royal, Acadia . The couple had (at least) 3 children. Marguerite LORD (LAURE) was born abt. 1698 in , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) . She was the daughter of Julien LORD (LOURT) dit LAMONTAGNE and Anne Charlotte GIROUARD.

Joseph AMIRAULT (MIREAULT) died 22 May 1774 in Saint-Sulpice, Province of Québec, Canada.
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Over time, Quebec has gone through a series of name changes
From its inception in the early 1600s until 1760, it was called Canada, New France.
1760 to 1763, it was simply Canada
1763 to 1791 - Province of Quebec
1791 to 1867 - Lower Canada
1867 to present - Quebec, Canada.

Thanks to Micheline MacDonald for providing this information.

Quebec - Did you know? About 30,000 French people set out on the great voyage to New France before 1760. Of this number, 27,000 arrived alive... All in all of the 27,000 immigrants, 14,000, or a little more than half, settled in New France.

History of Quebec for Dummies by Eric Bedard, published by John Wiley & Sons, Canada, Ltd.

Saint-Sulpice, Québec, Canada

Saint-Sulpice, Québec, Canada
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Saint-Sulpice, Québec, Canada

Saint-Sulpice, Québec, Canada
Hotel des Sapins, R. No. 2, St. Sulpice, P. Que.

Saint-Sulpice, Québec, Canada
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Joseph AMIRAULT (MIREAULT) married

Marguerite LORD (LAURE)-- Date: 31 July 1718 Place: Port Royal, Acadia
Marguerite LORD (LAURE) was the daughter of Julien LORD (LOURT) dit LAMONTAGNE and Anne Charlotte GIROUARD

Children:

François AMIRAULT (MIREAULT) (b.abt. 1721, , Acadia, Canada d. 2 December 1799, L'Assomption, Lower Canada )

Louis AMIRAULT (MIREAULT) (b.21 January 1734, , Acadia, Canada d. 23 February 1810, L'Assomption, Lower Canada )

Charles AMIRAULT (b.1 May 1740, Port Royal, Acadia d. 10 December 1793, Saint-Jacques, Lower Canada )

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Birth
8 December 1689
, Nova Scotia, Canada

1690 - Port Royal is captured by British forces led by Phipps.

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1690 - Frontenac repels Phips' (sent from Massachusetts) attack on Québec (October)

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1701 - 40 First Nation tribes, French Colonial Government signed Great Peace of Montreal
On August 4, 1701, some 40 Aboriginal nations gathered in Montreal. On that day, their representatives dinged the Treaty of Montreal. People in Montreal would remember this ceremony for a long time....Read MORE...

1702 - Having begun in Europe in 1701, The War of the Spanish Succession spreads to North America (Queen Anne's War) in Acadia and New England.

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1710 - British Capture Port Royal, Rename Fort Anne
The Acadian community of Port Royal is captured by Francis Nickolson for the British and renamed it ...Read MORE...

1713 - Treaty of Utrecht gave Nova Scotia to British; Nova Scotia became British colony

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1713 - Treaty of Utrecht ended Queen Anne's War (War of the Spanish Succession)
Hudson's Bay, Acadia and Newfoundland now all belonged to the English. Cape Breton belonged to the...Read MORE...

1718 Marriage / Partner
Joseph AMIRAULT (MIREAULT) and Marguerite LORD (LAURE) 31 July 1718, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada / Port Royal, Acadia

1734 Birth of Child
Louis AMIRAULT (MIREAULT) was born 21 January 1734, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie)

1740 Birth of Child
Charles AMIRAULT was born 1 May 1740, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada / Port Royal, Acadia

In 1745 Louisbourg fell to British forces from New England.
An expedition organized by Massachusetts Governor William Shirley besieged and ultimately captured...Read MORE...

The Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle returned Louisbourg to the French in 1748

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1749 - 2,576 settlers are brought to Acadia by the British. Halifax is founded. www.acadian-cajun.com/ acadtime.htm
The establishment of Halifax in 1749 engrained a solid colonized British presence on the Atlantic...Read MORE...

1750 - German immigrants begin to arrive in numbers at Halifax.

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1752 - Canada's first newspaper, the weekly Halifax Gazette, appears (March 23).

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1754 - Beginning of the French and Indian War between Great Britain and France for control of the North American colonies. It is part of the Seven Years War.

(1755 - 1763) Great Upheaval - French Acadians transferred to other British-controlled colonies, thousands die

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(1756 - 1763) Seven Years War - France, Great Britain clashed in Europe and North America; France, Russia, Austria, Saxony, Sweden and Spain sided against Britain, Prussia and Hanover

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1759 - British troops defeated French troops in Battle of Plains of Abraham near Quebec City

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1762—British population of Nova Scotia : 8,104.

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1763 Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia was then open to emigrants, and speculation was busy with its lands. Fnnns and...Read MORE...

1763 - French ceded Cape Breton Island, New Brunswick, St. John's Island (now Prince Edward Island) to British in the Treaty of Paris; joined to Nova Scotia

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1763 - France cedes its North American posessions to Britain by the Treaty of Paris, ending the Seven Years War (French and Indian War). Quebec City French-speaking Catholics were now under the rule of Protestant Britain.
In 1763, England was convinced, mistakenly, that it was inheriting a French society but the new...Read MORE...

Death
22 May 1774
Saint-Sulpice, Québec, Canada

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